The clown's song book.
Bibliographic Citation:
The clown's song book. New York : Torrey Bros, printers, 13 Spruce Street, [1871?]
Contributor:
Torrey Brothers. prt
Publisher:
Torrey Bros, printers, 13 Spruce Street, [1871?]
Notes:
  • Without music.
  • Cover title.
  • Probable date of publication fron the latest copyright (1871) determined for an individual item (Mollie darling) in the work.
  • Issued in tan printed illustrated wrapper in colors.
  • First sentence: "Many songs you have heard of late, about the present time; But I've another subject I'll sing youu in my rhyme, About these fast days, or father's age are going rather slow; For things ain't like they used to be--a hundred years ago."
  • Includes1 woodcut.
  • Contents: A hundred years ago / composed and sung by William H. Porter -- Little Eva in heaven -- Little bare-foot -- A bit of my mind / Tony Pastor's version ; sung by Tony Pastor -- Home, sweet home -- Beautiful Venice -- Bear it like a man -- When you and I were young, Maggie -- That's where you're wrong -- Mollie darling -- Dumpty Humpty -- Der excise law; or, My gal und I -- That's where the laugh comes in -- An old man's advice -- She was fair, she was fat, she was forty -- Norah O'Neal's reply -- The funniest man in the ring / by Claude de Haven -- Under the gaslight; or, Poor little Laura -- The gypsy's warning -- Do not heed her warning : answer to the gypsy's warning -- Would you be surprised? -- Beyond the golden door -- I am lonely to-night -- Dressed in a Dolly Varden -- Loafer's advice -- Pretty little Maggie -- The first dear thing that ever I loved -- Always make the best of it -- THe soap-boiler's daughter -- Fair, fair without compare -- Banks and braes o' Bonnie Doon -- Thou has learned to love another -- Sergeant Cop, the pet of the New York force -- Do as near right as you can / by Claude de Haven.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: hand-coloured pictorial front wrapper. Lacking back wrapper. Given to McGill 2001.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 16 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
New York Variety Troupe -- Portraits.
Songs, English -- Texts.
Circus music -- United States -- Texts.
Songsters.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Metrical Tales and Other Verse
Call Number:
PN970 T67 C5 1871 Rare Books/Special Collections - Sheila R. Bourke Collection
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Sponsor:
The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.
Copyright:
All images licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_US. For information, please contact Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library.
Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=8332
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_T67_C5_1871